Johnny Hughes wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >>> Matt Shields wrote: >>>> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. >>> Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the >>> "user" was subscribed. >>> >> Clearly you should assign an infinite number of monkeys to the problem! >> >> Is kinda weird though; I've also seen posts from what I assume to be >> the same spam source (and around the exact same time) on the >> dell linux-poweredge list. >> >> They'll unsubscribe the offenders and the problem will go away. This >> thing pops up from time to time. >> > > This is happening in other places too, with this specific user/mail. > > We are putting things in place to block / mod these users, but we > already have a positive email required and e-mail activation based on a > link to the address. > > We also have rbl list blocking on the server ... and spam scoring. > > There is not much else we can do except block the offenders when they > happen. > > OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all > posts :-D > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in them so its harder to script is ? /Mats